{"id":734,"date":"2012-12-08T11:16:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T16:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=734"},"modified":"2012-12-08T11:18:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T16:18:29","slug":"dempster-continues-to-seek-three-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/12\/08\/dempster-continues-to-seek-three-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox rebuffed, Dempster continues to seek three year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-704\" title=\"ryandempster\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/ryandempster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/ryandempster.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/ryandempster-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ryan Dempster continues to seek a three year deal this off-season. Multiple teams are said to have offered the 35-year-old deals of two years around $26 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Red Sox are the latest team to be rebuffed by Dempster who continues to ask for a three year deal worth at least $13 million annually. Kansas City was turned day recently as well.<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be a sizable market for Dempster. As the Royals and Red Sox likely remain interested in the services of Dempster. The Milwaukee Brewers are said to have interest and while a reunion with the Chicago Cubs was deemed implausible, by Gordon Wittenmyer of the Chicago-Sun Times, stranger things have happened.<\/p>\n<p>Dempster may see an increase in suitors after Zack Greinke signs. The signing of Greinke may make those who lost out on him potential suitors for Dempster. While a return to Texas seems like a stretch both the Los Angeles Dodgers and Angels could be a fit.<\/p>\n<p>In 28 starts last season Dempster finished with a 12-8 record and a 3.38 ERA. Last season was the first time since 2008 that Dempster did not start at-least 31 games, prior to that he was used as a closer for the Cubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Dempster continues to seek a three year deal this off-season. Multiple teams are said to have offered the 35-year-old deals of two years around $26 million. The Boston Red Sox are the latest team to be rebuffed by Dempster who continues to ask for a three year deal worth at least $13 million annually. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[123],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ryan-dempster"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}